The Soviet 10th Tank Division of the 15th Mechanized Corps alone had 63 KVs and 38 T-34s,” – wrote an American military historian David Glantz. 729 tanks per Wikipedia), but there is yet another shocking fact: “What’s all the more remarkable is that the Soviet corps had considerable numbers of heavier KV and T-34 tanks, tougher than the German army’s best tanks at the time. Surprisingly, the balance of tanks at the beginning of the battle was at least 3 to 1 in favor of the USSR ( 3429 vs. Known as the Battle of Brody, it started June 23, 1941, the following day after Nazi Germany invaded the USSR, and was mostly an attempt to stop the 1st Panzer Group’s advance toward Kyiv. The largest tank battle of WW2 is largely unknown, but it took place in western Ukraine in the triangle between the cities of Dubno, Lutsk, and Brody. Inscription in German with the date - June 29, 1941
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